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One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I ...
As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward ...
In the USA in 1978, they mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three fold increase in the reported incidence of whooping cough.
What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more than five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come ...
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".
I realized two things from an early age - I was insane and had some kind of comedic thing going on. My brain was wired ...
The Zionists' ... main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.
Piss!" shouted Kosta, hoisting his tumbler toward Cosetta, who nearly came apart at the joints with the resulting fit of giggles."Thank you, Ravelle, for this ...
Through football, the incongruous became congruous.
When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen ...
People are essentially red meat. They are.
Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.
Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.
If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in ...
Coowie it's the happiest way of saying hello
I was shocked. A dying word, "shocked." Few people have been able to use it well since Claude Rains so famously said, "I'm shocked, shocked ...
I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector ...
It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually ...
You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall ...
The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their ...
Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.
I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe.
If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, ...
Sexual desire is only the frustrated desire to eat human flesh.
The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end ...
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally ...
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. ...
The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is ...
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.
Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.
There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.
Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a ...
The old Janey only drank cheap wine and light beer. The new Janey is classy, prefers cocktails, and even drinks alone.
I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. ...
Listeria ... secretes two or three proteins that together hijack the host cell's cytoskeleton. As a result, the bacteria motor around the inside of the ...
The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.
When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet ...
You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.
Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.
Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.
It's time to stop pretending that you're somebody else. No, you can't change this world, but you can change yourself.
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the ...
I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done ...
What are they going to do about it?""So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them ...
A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.
Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order ...
I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
But even in the full flower of her fury, Carceret was perfectly in control. She didn't lash out wildly or snarl at me. She kept ...
If there's a magic pony in the story, chances are I'll read it.
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.
Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences, usually ...
My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the ...
While growth may be unsustainable, de-growth is unstable.' Today's economic model cannot continue indefinitely. We live on a small planet. The population and the economy ...
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more ...
Our band had perfected the art of punk-rock camping, throwing a bunch of crap into the van with, like, an hour's notice and just driving ...
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the ...
My hair has been this chapter thing for me. In 'Jem,' I have blue hair. 'Insidious,' it's pink. In 'CSI,' I have blonde. I love ...
Can't you see that you had to be a reckless drifter to bring ... people a bit of child's folly and child's laughter wherever you ...
God will save you.Surely you're forgetting that God saves souls rather than bodies.
We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!
That a healthy BDSM or kink relationship involves building a deep trust in each other, open and honest communication, using safewords, negotiating and sharing your ...
Fact is,' he said without any of his usual bonhomie, 'religious fafaith, which encodes the highest ass ass aspirations of human race, is now, in ...
Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we ...
I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.
ChrysanthemumSilence - monk Sips his morning tea.
China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the ...
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim ...
The marquis de Carabas tossed the figurine to Mr. Croup, who caught it eagerly, like an addict catching a plastic baggie filled with white powder ...
I think that marijuana should be legalized. I think the only reason it isn't legal is because politicians who smoked it when they were young ...
No State can command obedience if it does not deserve respect;
Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic ...
Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can ...
Gotten butt-ass, bone-dog naked for your vadge-cam?" Dante offered with an angelic smile, standing close."Fucking hell, D." Griff turned to Beth with an apology, but ...
Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!
Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.
Thanks for saving me back there larten errmm thats mr crepsley to you - darren shan and larten creplsley - the vampires assistant
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh ... but I like everything in all my paintings. ...
That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem ...
If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.
Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is ...
By God, you Assassins are a cheery bunch, eh? All frowns and furrowed brows."He glared at me. "Captain Kenway. You have remarkable skill.""Ah, thanks, mate. ...
His wife, however, happened to be the only woman in his life who failed totally to arouse any passion in him whatsoever.
The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the ...
Dale: "No, nocurse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." ...
And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he ...
As Mark Twain cuttingly remarked, if you removed all occurrences of the phrase 'And it came to pass', the Book of Mormon would be reduced ...
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind ...
The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses.[Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils ...
This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using ...
I made what must have been about a sixty-point turn and eventually managed to squeeze out of the small and crowded car park at the ...
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.